FRANCE: Giscard's Call

In a blunt speech, he comes out swinging

"I am addressing myself to those who are searching, to those who still don 't know, to those who are silent, to those who will vote for the first time, to those who want to be sure to choose well. "

With this ringing rhetoric, delivered to an audience of 20,000 under a huge tent in the small Burgundian town of Verdun-sur-le-Doubs, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing finally jumped into his country's roiling political campaign. At stake when the electorate chooses a new National Assembly in...

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